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Collections of Learning & Teacher Resources:

Great search engine just for education- facts, data, videos, quizzes!: Gooru

Resources for Introducing Topics in Social Studies:

• This YouTube channel has lots of videos on a variety of topics: crashcourse

• YouTube channels on history courses:

  
  http://www.educatorstechnology.com/2012/11/7-outstanding-youtube-channels-for.html

Research:

• Primary Sources: http://www.infotopia.info/primary_sources.html

• Civil War: http://blogs.loc.gov/civil-war-voices/

• Great search engine just for education: Gooru

Collections of sites with Resoures & Tools for Lessons & Projects:

• This site has extensive collection of tools & sites for storytrials, timelines, & other projects:

• Great projects and lesson plan ideas and resources: Teaching History

• 13 Good Resources for Social Studies Teachers: Free Technology for Teachers

• Research moments in histroy -Google Cultural Projects: http://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/?hl=en#!home:page=1

• The World of Wonders Project: new way to teach history w/lessons & projects: http://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/about/wonders.html

Primary sources:

• National Archives!! -need we say more?!: http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/

Creating & Projects:

• Create posters or movies using the tools and the video, images & documents from: The National Archives

• Visual Narratives : students can use this MIT creation as a model for creating visual narratives: MIT Visualizing Cultures

• Biographies: Fake Facebook Wall - students can present biography presentations: http://www.myfakewall.com/

• Create your own interactive project using primary documents: http://docsteach.org/tools

• **Make your images interactive -I.e- add links to forerfather in a painting/pic of the signing of declaration of independence, etc! : http://www.thinglink.com/ -----Tingling how-to-video: freetech4teachers

• Visuwords - interactive: Get the history of words by seeing linked terms -i.e. -Social Studies country projects: Visuwords

Historical Characters:

• Create a text message conversation between two characters with this free tool - no login required!: http://www.classtools.net/SMS/

Politics and Elections:

• Following the unbiased news via. FairSpin on Twitter

• Help yourself and your students along with other cititzens rate the news to tell fact from falsehood in the 2012 Elections -the goal is to sort news by quality rather than popularity. Users rate articles by journalism standards (facts, sourcing, fairness, etc.) : NewsTrust

Educational History Games:

A database of history games - over 126 playing history games! : Playing History

Timelines:

• Create timelines and incluce pics, video, or audio! - Great for history project: TimeRime

• Create timelines with video, pics, etc., and students can collaborate and/or embed timeline in website (need email to sign up): OurStory

• Great timeline - put in pics, video etcl!!!: http://www.dipity.com/

Tools:
Living Wage calculator - http://livingwage.mit.edu/

Maps/Graphs:

• Interactive - view hundreds of historical maps (primary documents) from various time periods: Old Maps Online

• Wealth Inequality in America (video):

  
  http://visual.ly/wealth-inequality-america?autoplay=1&utm_campaign=website&utm_source=sendgrid.com&utm_medium=email

Mr. T's Civil War tour in our library:

• Civil photos in 3-D:
  http://www.civilwarphotography.org/3-d-anaglyph-photographs-exhibit
  
  http://youtu.be/epT_DyGzTho
• Civil war battle in 3-D: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IouISrUL01A&safety_mode=true&persist_safety_mode=1&safe=active
• Same battle in 2-D:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_hWyCmdJWc&safety_mode=true&persist_safety_mode=1&safe=active
  
  
• Clara Barton Bio -complete:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkQMtR3BtyU&safety_mode=true&persist_safety_mode=1&safe=active
  
  
• Clara Barton Bio: http://youtu.be/XuZWgJjvpXE
• Clara Barton in action - go to 8:00 & to 13:00 : http://youtu.be/ssBg4TW-5AQ
• Bleeding wound - how to apply pressure:
  
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uA-vHanFv1o&safety_mode=true&persist_safety_mode=1&safe=active
  
  
• Head wound - stop video at 1:40 :
  
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53MYuHDbg5E&safety_mode=true&persist_safety_mode=1&safe=active
  
  
• How to make an arm sling:
  
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9cOMFN4Vso&safety_mode=true&persist_safety_mode=1&safe=active
  
  
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